The Absence of God in Modernist Literature / by G. Erickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Music.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

America--Literatures.

America.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

North American Literature.

Local Subjects:

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Music.

Literary Theory.

North American Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron .

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Literature after the Death of God; 1 Reading God/God Writing: The Irrational and Difficult Name; 2 The Golden Bowl, Atheology, and Nothing; 3 À La Recherche and Proust's Unstable Metaphors of Divinity; 4 Proust's Theology of Music; 5 Schoenberg's Godless Silences: Atonality, Poetry, and the Challenge of Coherence; 6 Schoenberg's Impossible God: Moses und Aron; Epilogue: The Other Side of God: Reading in the Dark; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363284

9781281363282

1281363286

9780230604261

0230604269

OCLC:

314776044